Users of Wikipedia, I write in earnest emotional trauma. I am a self-diagnosed wikiaddict, both in editing and reading, I have been a prolific wikipedia user and editor for quite a while now, I am not sure exactly how long, but I feel suitably attached to wikipedia to feel sincerely aggrieved, due to my recent blocking. My username is Jdcooper, and my IP address 128.243.220.42. When attempting to revert some vandalism today I was informed that User:Golbez has blocked me with the highly descriptive reasoning: "vandal". As someone who has never so much as THOUGHT of vandalising an article in my life, and as someone who gets highly troubled by wikivandalism, I was, I feel legitimately, sent into a devastating panic by such allegations. My only explanation is that, as I am editing from a university network (University of Nottingham, Great Britain, if anyone cares) with over 5,000 users, vandalism from one of said users may have been disproportionately punished. Whatever the case, I can assure everyone, particularly Golbez, that I am the furthest from a vandal you could ever hope to meet. I am a non-confrontational user who generally busies himself with correcting spelling mistakes, reverting vandalism, merging duplicates and sorting stubs. I have e-mailed Golbez about the misunderstanding (as I am sure this is) but I am unfamiliar with this kind of process (that of unblocking), as, not being a vandal, this has never happened to me before. I urge someone who can help me to do so, as I am anxious to get back to editing, my life is all but meaningless without it. Yours hopefully, Jdcooper _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l